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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Psychology (With Aid)

7 Ranked Colleges
90 Degrees Awarded
$23,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Health/Medical Psychology Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Health/Medical Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 212 people earned their degree in health/medical psychology, making the major the 913th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 90 health/medical psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Health/Medical Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in health/medical psychology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent health/medical psychology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the health/medical psychology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Health/Medical Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree health/medical psychology students with aid.

Top 7 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Psychology (With Aid)

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - San Diego. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Health/Medical Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. La Jolla, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s health/medical psychology degrees to 25 students in 2019-2020.

UCSD also made our “Best Health/Medical Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend UCSD is $14,232 for bachelor’s degree health/medical psychology students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Health/Medical Psychology at University of California - San Diego

#2

Eastern Washington University

Cheney, Washington
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Washington University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Health/Medical Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Eastern Washington University is a fairly large school located in Cheney, Washington that handed out 1 bachelors’s health/medical psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

EWU also took the #5 spot in our “Best Health/Medical Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Eastern Washington University is $12,607 for bachelor’s degree health/medical psychology students with aid.

Read full report on Health/Medical Psychology at EWU

#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Northwestern - St Paul. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Health/Medical Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. University of Northwestern - St Paul is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Northwestern, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Health/Medical Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $21,871 for Bachelor’s Degree Health/Medical Psychology students with aid per year to attend Northwestern.

The low student loan default rate of 3.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full University of Northwestern - St Paul Health/Medical Psychology Report

#4

Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Health/Medical Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Thomas Jefferson University landed the #4 spot on the list. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s health/medical psychology degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

Thomas Jefferson University also took the #2 spot in our “Best Health/Medical Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Thomas Jefferson University is $25,162 for Bachelor’s Degree Health/Medical Psychology students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Health/Medical Psychology at Thomas Jefferson University

#5

Averett University

Danville, Virginia
#7 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Averett University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Health/Medical Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Danville, Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s health/medical psychology students in 2019-2020.

AU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Health/Medical Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend AU is $23,516 for Bachelor’s Degree Health/Medical Psychology students with aid.

Full Averett University Health/Medical Psychology Report

#6 in overall quality

University of Mary Hardin - Baylor landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Health/Medical Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid ranking. This small school is located in Belton, Texas, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s health/medical psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

UMHB also took the #6 spot in our “Best Health/Medical Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UMHB is $27,099 for bachelor’s degree health/medical psychology students with aid.

Full UMHB Health/Medical Psychology Report

#4 in overall quality

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Health/Medical Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid ranking. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 17 degrees to qualified bachelors’s health/medical psychology students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at MCPHS University, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Health/Medical Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $37,712 for bachelor’s degree health/medical psychology students with aid per year to attend MCPHS University.

The low student loan default rate of 2.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Health/Medical Psychology at MCPHS University

Notes and References

References

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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